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English: Comparison of sizes of objects with order of magnitude 1e16m: ten light year radius shell with yellow Vernal Point arrow; below, white star Sirius 8.5 light years from Sun; on left, BL Ceti 8.73 light years distant; middle right, Proxima and Alpha Centauri about 4 light years distant; light year shell with Great January comet (Comet C/1910 A1)'s orbit shown as long extreme ellipse inside. All distances to scale, but stars are artificially enlarged for illustrative purposes only. No transparency version.
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derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files (see below), by me, 84user, using w:en:POV-Ray, and w:en:IrfanView.

84user's contribution (inside POV-Ray files: adjusting coordinates, changing light source and other parameters) is public domain and source files used are described at User:84user/Size comparison.

Physical information is based on the Wikipedia articles and elsewhere (see POVRay source files) about the respective lengths.

Paul Stansifer's contributions to this image (POV-Ray code) are available under the GPL, v. 2, and other licenses. See User:Paul Stansifer/Size comparison for more details and the other licenses.
Author Paul Stansifer, and User:84user (see "source")

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objects with size order of magnitude 1e16m: ten light year radius circle with yellow Vernal Point arrow; Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), left; Dumbbell Nebula (NGC 6853), right; one light year shell lower right with the smaller Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC_6543) and Barnard 68 adjacent.
Zoomed in to show objects with order of magnitude 1e15m: one light year radius circle with yellow Vernal Point arrow; Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC_6543) on left with Bok Globule Barnard 68 adjacent; Great January comet (Comet C/1910 A1)'s orbit shown as long extreme ellipse passing behind Barnard 68; light month shell (small yellow sphere) inside which a light week shell.
Simpler 1e15m lengths depiction: one light year yellow shell; Comet 1910 A1's orbit; light month shell

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